skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really, no. There is a 99.999% chance that the virus was just as infective if not more in bats or pangolins or whatever, and simply adapted to humans.

These mutations are the virus finishing its adaptation to humans. It will eventually end up at a local maxima, just like, say, measles did.
Google Project Zero has an excellent blog:
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/
You don't have to wonder what would happen if trump had won, because he actually did win four years ago.
I disagree. But the context is what you are comparing it to. I think boxed wines (Bota Box mostly) easily beats most 10-20 dollar bottles (reds) at <1/5 the cost. If you are comparing it to a 20-50 dollar bottle, yah, you are right.

Also, your comment is US centric. I lived in Italy for several years and the boxed wine was fantastic. Same quality as bottled, fixes the issues presented, and viewed as better for the environment.
I really hate websites like these because they tend to vastly oversimplify the issue. Most of that is likely because people don't understand WHY a politician voted the way they did, they only see the big picture. Legislative decisions can rarely be boiled down to a single yes/no vote, and the politicians don't seem to want it to be that way. Otherwise why not have smaller bills, with single issues:

Example: One page legislation. "To purchase a firearm capable of discharging a lethal projectile, the person must first complete a firearm safety course."

Hold an up or down yes or no vote. That's clear cut and easy. Vote no, you're voting against this requirement. Voting yes you're voting for this requirement. Instead the bills are hundreds if not thousands of pages long, and the yes/no vote becomes much, much more complicated. Then websites like this come along and oversimply the issue, skipping over the complexity of what the actual vote was on. It's not fair and it is a disservice to the voters.
This was a great read - I recommend reading it all the way through
It's just a render. The other graphic shows it reaching a height of 45 feet off the ground; modern trees far exceed that frequently.
Yeah, there is a sense in which dismissal for “failure to state a claim” (which is very common for the Trump cases, often alongside other grounds like laches and/or lack of standing) is “procedural”, but it definitely and unequivocally amounts to a finding on the merits, since it is literally “does the plaintiff allege the actual elements of an offense, with specific alleged factual bases, and profer evidence which would suffice, if not countered, to prove each”. If you lose on that, it is exactly the court say that “ignoring everything else, if you went to trial, presented everything you say you have, and the defendant’s legal team slept through your whole presentation and then decided not to present a case of their own, you would still lose”.
Dominion, as an operating business, has effectively been destroyed. No bipartisan election committee is going to buy their stuff anymore when it is an article of unshakable faith among one of the two parties that their machines fraudulently stole an election.

So now their owners[1] need to figure out how to get whatever value they can. This isn't a "campaign", it's just a business effort. They've been transformed into something like an IP holding company, where the IP is the damage suffered by the original outfit. They'll sue everyone they can.

(They'll also probably manage to recoup some value by selling what's left of the company to someone else who then rebrands them and tries to sell back into the markets that have been poisoned. Something very similar happened with Diebold a decade ago, which was then sold to ES&S and thence to, yes, Dominion.)

[1] No idea how they're structured, but per wikipedia they're a private corporation.
The amount of Japanese-centric content on the English wikipedia is quite staggering. It goes to show you that the interest (and/or bias) of the contributors is what will ultimately shape the content of the site.
Doesn't really matter. The project's value doesn't require the collapse to happen by then or any specific time. In any case, the author found value for themselves in building their project even if the collapse never happens:

> But nevertheless, this idea seems too powerful to not try it. And even if it proves futile, it's a lot of fun to try.
What you're describing absolutely sounds plausible.

People who use their voice frequently and professionally tend to (over)compensate for perceived or real shortcomings in their environment or their own voice, which in turn can lead to self-consciousness and bad habits over time.

As for the specific setting of video conference calls you're probably right, too. We tend to speak louder than necessary during such calls and to overdo our "performance" because we feel we have to compensate for missing channels such as the full range of gestures, body posture, and facial expressions.

Here are a few general tips for speaking in (semi-)public settings (not just when on Zoom calls):

- Slow down.

- Lower your speaking voice. There are exercises for finding your natural speaking pitch.

- Smile (just a little, no creepy Joker grin ;-) ).

- Focus on your diaphragm rather than your throat for putting emphasis on words or syllables. This admittedly takes some getting used to.
Still nothing short of incredible. "the recursive feedback loop of evolution" abstracts a mind boggling amount of complexity. How did such a complex system start? I suppose if we knew, abiogenesis would be a solved problem.
But your typical home did not cost $35k then, and your typical home does not cost $700k now
That's why there's botihn in irc://irc.freenode.org/#hn
The Moderna mRNA vaccine works against newly emerged Covid-19 mutants
I'm a big fan of personal responsibility, but someone who uses heroin or meth once or twice, is highly likely to totally lose the self control needed to have adequate personal responsibility. Unfortunately some things are too powerful for our willpower to responsibly care for ourselves. If we didn't have a law that made the production and use of meth illegal I fear the consequences would be human evolutionary disaster.
Popular answers: Good weather and high housing costs.

Less popular answers: Extensive services for homeless serves as a magnet to homeless. Greater benefits for the homeless incentivizes homeless across the nation to move there.
> Listen to one of our most respected historians ...

Mentioning "O Globo" article from 2016, a news media that was part of the package that severely supported the coup, by constant manipulation of brazil's popular opinion, being one of the most influential TV channels of Brazil. A support that paved the way for Bolsonaro and all the right wing lunatics that are in power right now.

Also "one of our most respected historians", IDK, not from the field, but never heard of him. Maybe i should take from granted something he says over our past, but historians have not the best kind of training to understand the present time, sociologists and philosophers can do much better. Also knowing how 'Globo' works, it must have been hard to find a guy from social sciences that would corroborate with their distorted and manipulated point of view (And some point in time they will have to make a historical repair over all the wrongdoings in this case).

Marco Antonio Villa for instance is a well known historian, but is clearly a right wing supporter, with a clear political view and agenda, despite being against Bolsonaro nowadays. So there's no way to resort to prestige in the field and yet somehow say it have anything to do with objectivity, because we know this is not how it works in real life.

On the other way i can present you a lot of current newspapers pieces that say exactly the opposite. There is a trend now, that even people that supported this in the past, is starting to show a changed opinion about the subject, as the blind hate over Lula or PT is starting to make less sense nowadays, when all this had lead to this suffocating reality we are living.

> Lula, Dilma and her party tried to impeach Social Democrat President Fernando Henrique 45 (forty five!) times.

> By your own definition, they tried 45 coups, making them the biggest coupists in Brasil's history.

Don't know if those are the real numbers, but anyway, taking them for granted, none of them was approved, so it doesnt matter if it was 10, 100 or 1000. You are comparing oranges and apples here.

The only way to be comparable, it would be if one of them got approved, and without any legal grounds being proved, removed Fernando Henrique from his legitimate presidency. Than yes, i would say it would be a "soft coup", because it needs the green light from a lot of important people for this to happen without the right guidance under the law.

Because that's how you cook a coup that have the appearance of legitimacy, but once anyone digs enough, can see the how much it was flawed and corrupted from the very start (for instance, it started as a form of 'Cunha' blackmailing the president to stop the investigations on his corruption cases).
The UK has found many, and documented outline details of them in annual public reports, like [1]

In outline:

- Version management issues, with different firmwares being used for each operator, with significant variations in each one [1].

- Failures to follow Huawei's own secure coding guidance, and sustained examples of poor coding (examples of which include tricks of the form of:

#define SAFE_LIBRARY_memcpy(dest, destMax, src, count)memcpy(dest, src, count)

to make code appear to no longer use unsafe functions, and make auditing harder. [2]

- When critical vulnerabilities were found (arising from poor code quality in user-facing protocols, and an old operating system), they were fixed, but the fix introduced another major issue into the product in question. [1]

- Reliance on out-of-support RTOS in products, and no alignment of own product lifespans to external support lifespans, and no identification of this issue by themselves. [1]

- Previously, 70 full copies of 4 different OpenSSL versions were found in products (and 304 partial copies), some of which dated back to 2006 with multiple disclosed vulnerabilities in each, showing no dependency management at all, and no management of vulnerabilities in dependencies. [2]

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[2] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Agree such threads presently have limited value, hence suggestions granting readers greater dominion over them. Sans, excessive polarisation remains a risk for any topic.
Great news. There are definitely a number of people out there who, in part due to social circumstances have difficulty taking meds daily and this will likely help a good proportion of them.
If you only have 64kB what's the point of using JS? I get that I'm free not to use it, but I genuinely don't understand why these projects are popular - you nearly always end up using C in the end anyway, especially because embedded nearly always means writing to registers and specific memory addresses.
No, that is the wrong list of fines.

http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/editorcharts/EU-GOOGLE-...
> The general point being that they did make and did not withdraw fraud allegations in other cases.

So, here’s a challenge. Find one case where:

(1) Trump or his campaign alleges electoral fraud, and
(2) The case (or specifically the fraud claim, if these are separate) was dismissed other than voluntarily by the plaintiff, and the grounds for that dismissal do not include any that require an evaluation of the merits of the case based on the allegations and proferred evidence. Notably, this means that you can’t include any case/claim dismissed for failure to state a claim, or that was dismissed voluntarily by Trump or his campaign.
It's just all so... completely implausible.

And yet there it is, and what's more the finished product comes fully loaded with all sorts of instinct about the physical world, plus an ability to learn as it goes that our AI can't hold a candle to.

And that's just the Salamander version. Feed in a different strip of ticker tape and now you're looking at your very self emerge.

It's utterly unnerving to behold.
Leaked emails show Fidelity seeking sell Bird shares at a loss
I would consider something like "the statute applies to telegrams sent within a state, so there is no standing" to be a goofy procedural argument.
I've gone through your submissions to other posts, the work is impressive. Are you available for freelancing? Can you update your profile with email ID or drop me an email (id in my profile)
Because EU anti-trust violations give way bigger fines than GDPR violations.
(Edited to fix footnotes)

> blocks the current thread of execution

That's a green thread.[1]

To quote Wikipedia[2]:

> a thread of execution is the smallest sequence of programmed instructions that can be managed independently by a scheduler

This is the definition the doc is using.

The thread of execution that is blocked is a green thread -- the sequence of instructions containing the `await` that is managed by a scheduler managed by Raku.

> This stands in direct contradiction to what was said in the thread here:

>> so while the code containing the `await` blocks and waits, the underlying thread/core is released

> Unless the OP referred to a _different_ await

No, what I meant by "underlying thread/core" is an OS thread as against a green thread, and what I meant by "released" wasn't that it was released back to the OS but instead that Raku's scheduling sees the `await`, blocks the enclosing green thread, and immediately unblocks some other green thread by "stealing"[3] the OS thread to run that other green thread instead.

I hope I've now reassured you that Raku(do) both eliminates the red/blue distinction and doesn't block OS threads.

Yes, it's unusual among PLs. No, it's not easy to design a PL to do this at a language level. Nor is it easy to implement. (For example, the Rakudo implementation involves taking a continuation[4].)

But it is possible, and Raku has never had the red/blue distinction, and has had work stealing semantics for `await` since 2018.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_threads

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_stealing

[4] http://jnthn.net/papers/2018-concurrency-guts.pdf#page=67
I spent longer playing on this than I should have. :-)
I have 38,000 digital photos I've taken throughout my life. They're in folders all over my computers and backup drives. Does that mean I'm a hoarder? This article doesn't seem to make clear what exactly is a hoarder. Documents left over from a job 8 years ago still on my hard drive. Is that hoarding? I guess the real question is: Why is digital hoarding a bad thing; where's the harm??
If that’s the issue with the video, then why does everyone’s main concern about it seem to be that they came from a box under a table? There’s certainly an implication that these were fake ballots that had been snuck in surreptitiously, given that its origin was clearly shown in the same video but had been cut out.

Maybe I’m reading too much into it. But then why is it called “SuitcaseGate”? Does “StandardContainerOfAbsenteeBallotsGate” not have the same deliberately made implication?

Beyond that, I don’t disagree that poll observers are important. But the ballots at this point had already been removed from both of their envelopes and stacked for scanning, while the observers were all present. If there was a flawed provenance to them, the observers observed it. At the point where those ballots were taken out of the box and scanned (again, all on camera) they’re nothing but pieces of paper with some bubbles filled in.

There’s no name. There’s no date. There’s no voter address. There’s no signature. Just ballots. Any questions of their provenance could only have been addressed earlier when they were taken out of their envelopes under the supervision of the election observers.

So with no observers present, they were pulled back out of the boxes and fed through the scanner. What did the observers need to observe that wasn’t captured on the surveillance tape? What part of this unobserved scanning process can’t be confirmed by a recount of the same ballots?

> Leaving a semi-public place such as an arena or an office building for the night has the result of not being permitted back in until the next public opening. Your arguments have turned to disingenuity and open trolling.

The Mitchell Harrison affidavit linked by another commenter specifically explains that he and Trevin McKoy came back that night and were escorted into the building. Counting had stopped before they arrived, but the point stands you’re bullshitting about it “having the result of not being permitted back in until the next public opening.”
Wait till you hear who they fund when they pay kidnapping ransoms to. Literally isis!
While following the same goal, France's trying a different approach: a repair score [1] that will be stamped on products:

Concretely, a grade out of 10 will be added to the labels of washing machines, laptops, smartphones, TVs and lawn mowers. This score will be calculated based on criteria such as: ease of disassembly, price and availability of spare parts and access to repair information.

No new market rule but a more informed consumer. I thought you guys would like this "free-market makes-best-decisions" gov lobbying.

Hope it won't end as the precedent: we got a "healthy-score" on most food products -which is great- but the cheese lobby put much effort to gets special rules as salt and fat would give them an awful grade [2]

1: https://repair.eu/fr/news/french-repairability-index-what-to...

2: https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/content/download/150263/f...
I'm struggling to think of a road sign that isn't either placed well in advance of when you need it, or something like a stop sign where blurriness doesn't matter.

Just street names, I guess? Those are a pain to navigate by anyway. You often already want to be in a lane by the time you can read the sign. The proper the way to relieve that mental burden is to have a navigator or GPS.
It's sad that Leaf's failure makes "air cooling is bad" opinion. Leaf's approach is body contact cooling rather than air cooling. I expect properly done air cooling isn't so bad.
I suppose I hadn't considered bending the Library system of Plex or Jellyfin to this task.

What is appealing about Stash though is that there's nothing to teach the user about. Point them to the URL and away they go as if it were YouTube.

I'll take a closer look at Jellyfin though. Thanks!
Most companies I've worked for don't see WFH as a cost saving initiative but as an operating productivity initiative.
SIGINFO on macOS.
I got to the part where he says "The next day I arrived at the hospital" and I'm just thinking wow, next day appointment for a specialist in a field, that must be nice.
It still hasn’t been resolved last I checked and it was a decision made by the current administration so I’ve little faith that the attitude has changed.
Tools I Love to Not Think About
Looks like it's based to his Quora answer: https://www.quora.com/Has-anyone-moved-from-the-Bay-Area-to-...
I agree. I think our entire 3D universe is really more like a 'projection' (onto lower dimensions) of some vastly larger hyperspace in many more dimensions, so we're always seeing basically only a sliver of true reality, and if we could see it all (all of reality) it would be vastly more complex, but also a lot of things (like this video) would seem more mechanical than magical.
I wonder if that isn't figuring into a republican strategy: let's get the public so exhausted with our nonsense that the Democrats won't want to hold us to account for fears of irritating the battle-fatigued public.
Applying the actual text of a law is a goofy procedural argument?
Maybe you misunderstood me. I meant that paper votes are superior so why bother complicating the process with machines. It gives reasons to not trust or understand the process. Most democracies work fine without voting machines.
B; the argument that if humans are going to take over the galaxy and become a multi-trillion population species and you throw a dart anywhere in the population of all humans who ever lived, chances are the dart would land in the region of most population, and therefore where you live is probably the time of highest population, so we never do become a galaxy-spanning species we only dwindle from here.

And it's a daft argument because if you don't have a soul, you are the product of your environment. You couldn't be born as someone else, or somewhere else, or somewhen else, just like the River Amazon couldn't be on Mars or in Pangaea, because it's defined as "the thing in Brazil, currently". You couldn't be born in the Wild West because you are defined as "the child of your parents" and they weren't there, then. You didn't end up /in/ that meat body, you /are/ that meat body.

(And if you do have a soul, and they are randomly assigned to meat bodies, this argument is still like saying "roll two dice, the most likely combined outcome is a 7, I got two dots and one dot so that must be what 7 is")
> You think those are fake links to stanford law on his site? The sources are of equal validity regardless of the messenger.

At least the links I checked (the only thing linked is the title of each case) were to the complaints, so they aren’t sources for the data in the table about the outcomes or grounds for the outcomes.
now he's too old to rock 'n' roll,
but he's too young to die...
For those using dd (or cp) on macOS, ⌃T will send the process a SIGINFO and print some additional information about progress. On Linux, SIGUSR1 will do something similar, but it's not as convenient.
Okay, the devil is in the detail on this one. I took it that the UK said they “won’t” - or are unwilling to - but by your interpretation they say they “can’t” - presently but might like to review that in the future ...
It’s too cold so everyone figured out another solution?
> compares trust across companies

Did you mean different companies trusting each other, and thus being "hyper productive" if getting things done together? In a way that lasts also after the individuals (executives, managers, people at the companies) who initially created that high trust, have left?

It sounded more as if you had in mind to compare the "trust level" inside different companies, with each other? Maybe plotted against profitability?

In any case, sounds like interesting topics to me.

> Across countries

Did you mean how much people in different countries, trust others in the same country as themselves?

Or if nearby countries can "lift each other up" by people and politicians there, trusting the people & politicians in the other nearby countries
Yea, right in the root directory. It doesn't necessarily have to be in the README, but the if it isn't then the README should mention it prominently.
After reading the whole article, it was not as scary as I first anticipated and kind of clever even (but I’m not endorsing it by any means)
He didn't really talk Mediagoblin up very much. It just didn't seem too appealing although it's still on my mind.
> Why haven't we created a database yet which works more like the Unix operating system?

Not to be overly snarky, but have you tried? Database design is full of trade-offs.
DNA is basically digital information. Every rung on the helix ladder is either an AT or GC. Nature found the simplest say to store information in our chemistry set. Couldn't really store any field patterns though.
Check out featmap.com, it's a user story mapping tool.